For several years now I have been invoking the image of the Manus basket, and my basket making practice, to share on a range of themes. It has generated many interesting conversations and responses and one of my slow projects is to publish a book about it. As I noted in this 2023 mekim basket (making a basket or basket making) workshop at the School of Culture, History & Language Immersia flagship festival, the book project plays on the Nali, Manus word for basket, n’drop, an

It was a privilege to present a seminar on the Nahau's biography and the Nahau and Wesley Rooney Collection at the National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, on 30th April 2026. A recording of the seminar can be seen in the above embedded video.